-educated, but i returned back home. the question i would like to ask would be directed to ricardo -- is based on peter's introduction. mali was a failed state. the issue in mali was a leadership issue, not an ethics or religious issue, but primarily a religious issue. i thank you for truly addressing that. you talked about leadership in mali. why should we organize elections? because democracy is a value that should be enforced, promoted, and supported everywhere, even in mali. there is an emerging class of leaders, but they are on heard -- unheard, they are suppressed by bad leadership. elections should be organized so that malians -- the question is, what should we do next before the elections? we shoudl hold a national sovereign conference, as we did in 1991, to bring malians together and craft and integration plan for mali, as it has been done before. it is time that we address this in a global point of view, instead of just pointing out arabs or -- there is a region where they are over 26%. my question to you -- wh